Schools and lawmakers are grappling with how to address a new form of peer-on-peer image-based sexual abuse that disproportionately targets girls.

Allegheny County reinstated an advisory board to guide management of Highland Detention at Shuman Center, operated by private contractor Adelphoi.

Homicides are up 10% in Milwaukee this year. Even more depressing — and truly infuriating — is the perception that gun deaths ...

Long sentences and recidivism kept prison populations high for decades, but prisons are now starting to empty.

Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration Rachel Elise Barkow. Harvard Univ, $35 (320p) ISBN 978-0-674-29422-6 ...

To help in that effort, Wayne County Juvenile & Youth Services recently announced the funding of its new justice-impacted juvenile diversion program to reduce the issue.

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Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey has nominated two new Associate Justices to the Juvenile Court, Andrew Don and Nibal Raheb. The announcement, which came earlier this week, will see both ...

The Black Response asks ‘Where Do Black Men Live?’ The grass-roots organization’s Juneteenth Festival on Thursday includes a screening of ‘Where Do Black Men Live?’ ...

James, a Transgender student at UTC, says the court should focus on what he describes as more important issues. "The number one cause of death for minors in America right now, it's not drag queens ...